Saturday, November 8, 2014

Soft, Fluffy Bread

I'm happy to eat tough sourdough and seedy wholemeal loaves, however, my nearest and dearest likes only soft white bread in a packet. I've tried to make a loaf like store bought for some time, but have never quite achieved the right texture.

However, I think I've found it! Over at The Road to Loving My Thermomix, Peta has developed a great recipe and has loads of tips on bread making. I learned that I have had my oven way too hot for this sort of bread. I cook at 180C now and have been making some lovely loaves and rolls using her recipe.

Rather than copy it, I'll pop a link here so you can read all the tricks of bread making yourself.

Here's one of my lovely loaves with some rolls made from the dough. This is double her normal recipe for rolls, that is, it uses 750g flour. This particular loaf has 620g strong white flour, 80g wholemeal flour and 50g white spelt flour. It made a large loaf plus 6 rolls. I leave my dough to rise until it's tripled, rather than doubled. My bread tin measures 28 x 14 wide x 12cm high. The rolls were baked in a 20cm tin.

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Living in the bush has its pluses, but there are also a few minuses for a person like me who loves her food, loves cooking and enjoys trying new things.
I've put together this blog to help those who love food, love to cook and love to eat!
I like to eat unprocessed wholefoods and enjoy learning about new foods.
I'm a Thermomix fan, so many recipes will be designed for this wondrous machine, however, they can easily be adapted.
I'm interested in natural health and healing through nutrition, so you'll find a lot of wholefood recipes here and some hints and tips about healthy weight loss and good health through good food choices.
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